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  • Etiquette of the Occasion
  • David Huddle (bio)

The deaths I’ve imagined lately include apologies: Sorry to ruin dinner like this.Forgive me, old friend, lousy way to end a set,we were playing so well. Please, sir, nocpr, thanks, I can find my way out.Sorry to ask this, ma’am, but do you mind. turning your back? My dear, I apologize . for the mess. .       Stupid, stupid, I tell myself. So how should it go? An afternoon walk. into the woods where they won’t think to look . till daylight. Shortness of breath whispers, Here . sit on this stump, then chest pain suggests, .Lyingin those ferns might be nice. Bandit chickadee . blinks down from a pine, then flies off politely. [End Page 82]

David Huddle

David Huddle is working on his twentieth book, having published poetry, story collections, novellas, novels and essays both in book form and for periodicals including Harper’s, The New Yorker and Esquire. He was raised in Ivanhoe, Virginia, taught at the University of Vermont for 38 years, and is now doing post-retirement teaching as the Roy Acuff Chair in Creative Excellence at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

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